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Wedding Quotes

Wikiquote has no wedding page of its own to draw on, so this one is a blend of the marriage, love and romance pages. Only one quote in the data is filed under weddings directly: Ambrose Bierce’s entry in The Devil’s Dictionary (1911), a definition of the ceremony as a joke about who ends up as nothing. It is funny and it is not for a toast.

For a reading or a speech, the love and romance material is the better bet. Shakespeare and Byron are both here. Look at the source line under each quote before you print it on anything.

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The Eskimo has fifty-two names for snow because it is important to them; there ought to be as many for love.

Margaret Atwood Surfacing (1972)

I am bewildered by the death of love. And my responsibility for it.

Arthur Miller After the Fall (1964)

Every one who marries goes it blind, more or less.

Henry Adams Esther: A Novel (1884)

Love flowers best in openness and freedom.

Edward Abbey Desert Solitaire (1968)

Care and responsibility are constituent elements of love, but without respect for and knowledge of the beloved person, love deteriorates into domination and possessiveness.

Erich Fromm Man for Himself (1947)

Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you."

Erich Fromm The Art of Loving (1956)

Mankind is composed of two sorts of men — those who love and create, and those who hate and destroy.

José Martí Letter to a Cuban Farmer (1893)

You cannot love someone you do not know -- not unless you water down the definition of love so much that it becomes meaningless.

Jane Roberts The Nature of the Psyche: Its Human Expression (1979)

It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all. Some of us can't: and are proud of our impotence, too.

William Makepeace Thackeray The History of Pendennis (1848)

As the gambler said of his dice, to love and win is the best thing, to love and lose is the next best.

William Makepeace Thackeray The History of Pendennis (1848)

When once the mind has raised itself to grasp and to delight in excellence, those who love most will be found to love most wisely.

Francis Turner Palgrave Golden Treasury of English Songs and Lyrics (1861)

Anyone who is in love is making love the whole time, even when they're not.

Paulo Coelho Eleven Minutes (2003)

In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.

János Arany

In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Stendhal De L'Amour (On Love) (1822)

It isn't enough to love people because they're good to you, or because in some way or other you're going to get something by it. We have to love because we love loving.

John Galsworthy A Bit O' Love (1915)

There is only one thing infamous in love, and that is a falsehood.

Paul Bourget Cosmopolis (1892)

However important it is that love shall precede marriage, it is far more important that it shall continue after marriage.

Samson Raphael Hirsch

Two souls in one, two hearts into one heart.

Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas La Semaine; ou, Création du monde (1578)

Flesh of thy flesh, nor yet bone of thy bone.

Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas La Seconde Semaine (1584)

There is an evening twilight of the heart,
When its wild passion-waves are lulled to rest.

Fitz-Greene Halleck

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